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JAPAN GETS AVIATION FUEL
The new iron and steel scrap em
bargo finally shut off one of Japan’s
key military supplies.
But through a loophole as big as
a barn door, Japan had been able,
despite this supposedly stringent
embargo, to obtain all the U. S. gas
it needs for the bombers that are
raining death and destruction on
helpless Chinese cities and villages.
This loophole is the little-noticed pro
vision that limits the embargo only
to a certain super-grade of gas—B7
octane and over.
This type of fuel is essential for
modern aerial warfare. Without it
planes are not able to attain the
great speeds necessary in dog fights
and raids such as take place night
and day over Britain.
But Japan is not up against that
kind of battling. Its bombers and
fighter planes face no aerial opposi
tion. They have the skies to them
selves. They don’t need super-gas.
They can do just as well on lower
octane fuel. Their job is no differ
ent than an ordinary transport
plane’s. They haul out a load of
bombs, dump it and fly back.
The story is told in the following
unpublished government figures. In
the month after the imposition of the
so-called embargo, Japan imported
from the United States 187,026 bar
rels of lower grade gasoline, or more
than 20 per cent of all such exports
during that period.
* • •
SPY CENTER
The large Japanese fishing colony
on Terminal island in Los Angeles
harbor is soon due for a clean-up
by Uncle Sam.
This colony has long been under
suspicion as a nerve center of for
eign espionage on the West coast.
More than one of the “fishing” ves
sels is radio-equipped, and intelli
gence officials have evidence that
some of the colony’s sea-going deni
zens double in brass as spies.
No action has been taken up to
now chiefly because of state depart
ment qualms about kicking up an
international ruckus. The suspects
were kept under scrutiny but noth
ing was done to get rid of them.
But with Japan taking the bit in
its teeth in Indo-China and showing
signs of further adventures, the
state department has withdrawn its
red light. Under a plan worked out
with California and Los Angeles of
ficials, the fishing village will be
dispersed.
• • *
U. S. FLYING FORTRESSES
“Flying Fortresses” of the U. S.
army and powerful twin-engined
PBY patrol bombers of the U. S.
navy—for Britain—
The negotiations have been going
on for several weeks simultaneously
with conversations regarding the se
curing of air and naval bases on
strategic British islands in the Pa
cific.
The British are urgently in need
of long-range, great weight-carrying
planes of the "Flying Fortress” and
PBY type. Lack of ships of this
kind is a vital weakness in British
air power. They have no planes
capable of operating cast of Berlin,
which makes it impossible to strike
at some of the Nazis’ key war pro
duction centers located in what were
formerly Austria and Czechoslo
vakia.
A fleet of 25 “Flying Fortresses,”
which have a cruising radius of over
5,000 miles, would bring the war
home to the Germans where it
would hurt most. Also, the British
could strike smashing blows at
Italian industries—and Italy is the
Achilles heel of the Axis.
The naval PBYs are needed in the
crucial Mediterranean struggle.
With a range of 4,000 miles, these
mighty flying boats could destroy
Italian submarines, transports and
supply ships. Italy has to transport
everything she needs in her African
offensive across the Mediterranean,
and the PBYs could cripple this
jugular vein.
These planes also are needed to
meet assault on Gibraltar, key to
British control of the Mediterranean.
They also would put Britain in a
much stronger position to meet
Spanish intervention.
The army has a total of 59 “Fly
ing Fortresses” plus a number of
others in production, which are com
ing from the factory at the rate of
about seven a month.
The British would like to make
an arrangement to obtain every oth
er new ship. Army officials say
this would not delay U. S. rearming,
but would enable the manufacturer
to expand his facilities and achieve
a greater output.
The navy is amply supplied with
PBYs. It already has 196 in service
and 200 more being produced at the
rate of one every 36 hours. The
new’ ships are considerably faster
and more powerful than most of the
196 in service. Navy heads declare
that 50 of these planes could be
spared without any impairment to
navy air power.
The British plan to fly the giant
planes direct across the Atlantic,
and crews of English and Amer
ican airmen are being assembled in
Canada for this purpose.
Kathleen Norris Says:
England Sends Us Her Children
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
That they arc trusting us with their children at this time is sure proof of the con
fidence and affection that naturally exists between the. two /treat countries.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
IT IS a real joy and satisfac
tion to the hearts of Ameri
can women to know that we
are to have as our guests this
year several thousand little
refugees from war-torn Eng
land.
That they are trusting us with
their children at this time is sure
proof of the confidence and af
fection that naturally exists be
tween the two great countries;
Even those of us who have been
most positive against any plan
of intervention in this or any
other foreign combat, are eager
to extend a welcome to the
small girls and boys who are to
be sent away for awhile to
safety.
So they will come trooping over;
they will file down from the ships a
little scared and more than a little
homesick; they will be absorbed into
thousands of homes. And for a few
days all will be harmony, interest,
eagerness to make them feel com
fortable and happy.
For a few days. Then the real
test will come for both visitors and
visited. And we must all hope that
when this test comes we will not fail.
Again America Sets Example.
This is perhaps the first time in
the history of the world that one
nation has thus extended hospitality
to the children of another. America
is often first in setting some exam
ple that the whole world presently
follows. And surely she has never
originated a more important one
than this. If it succeeds we will
have knitted our hearts to those of
England forever. Trade treaties,
franchises, taxes, these are cold
blooded necessities between nations,
and misunderstandings and bitter
ness may easily upset them. But
when we say to their children:
“Come to us for safety and kindness
and good times and friendship,” we
do something that goes far higher
than any business agreement goes;
we begin a new type of international
exchange that may be the opening
of a better day.
If it had been the fashion in Eu
rope, during the past 600 or 800
years, to exchange children when
children were in danger, how dif
ferent might be the history of the
world! For we have to remember
that the alignment of warring forces
has been different in all the wars.
For example, 20 years ago French
children might well have been sent
into Italy or Spain, for France and
Italy were on the same side then.
Russia might well have welcomed
English children, for Russia was one
of England’s allies.
So that this is a very solemn and
significant thing that we are doing.
We are saying to England: “we be
of one blood, thou and I.” We are
saving her the keenest pang that
her danger knows, the fear for her
children, and we are proving that,
even though we are not with her in
war, what we can do for her with
out war we are eager to do.
Creates Domestic Problem.
But the taking of a strange child
Into any home is a serious thing. If
that child is a small baby it means
that one woman’s time is given com
pletely over to the baby. If the child
is older —and the ages of these chil
dren supposedly will range from 6
to 16, then the problem is infinitely
complicated. Instead of straight
ahead nursery service with bottles
and cribs and vegetable soups, the
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. GEORGIA
CHIU) REFUGEES
Child refugees sent from England
to America for safety offer this coun
try the greatest opportunity in history
to promote international friendship.
Kathleen Norris warns that it is ter
ribly important that these children re
ceive unusually kind and considerate
treatment. They are living in a foreign
land among total strangers with differ
ent customs. After all, she points out,
they are only children with children's
temperament, ill manners and home
sickness.
foster mother may in some cases
have to deal with temperament, with
lack of training, with perhaps a
total ignorance of politeness and
manners, with homesickness and
strangeness and unhappiness.
All these children won’t come from
the better homes. We have many
of those fortunate babies already;
the ones who could come over with
a good nurse in charge, and are
rapturously absorbed by rich grand
mothers and friends. Most of the
children who are coming will be
have much as our own American
children would if they were suddenly
transplanted from New York or Bos
ton or any other American city and
suddenly transported to England.
Ernest Thompson-Seton once gave
in one of his books the jungle’s rule:
“if it’s strange, it’s hostile,” and
children still retain many of the in
stincts of the jungle.
In handling these guests we must
use infinite patience and tact, and
an entirely unreasonable amount of
kindness. They mustn’t be disci
plined, or subjected to rules, even
as much as our own children are.
No woman who wants to shelter one
should undertake it unless she is
willing to regard the experiment
with the utmost seriousness, and ex
pects no surety of personal pleasure
or return from it whatsoever.
Keep Arrivals Together.
My own hope is that America,
rather than scattering the small
English arrivals, will keep many of
them together in something as like
a great boarding-school as possible;
will find good-hearted Englishwomen
who will understand them, and act
as nurses, cooks, guardians, teach
ers for them. That would seem to
me a far truer hospitality than the
seemingly-kindlier one of giving
them to individual foster-mothers in
scattered homes.
There must be in our various cit
ies many empty buildings that could
easily be fitted with cots and lock
ers and refectory tables, and
equipped very simply to meet the
needs of small children. There are
certainly, in all our communities,
experienced mothers, doctors, diet
specialists to keep an eye on the
visitors, and be sure that they have
plenty of outside pleasures and ex
cursions.
Handle With Mass Efficiency.
We should make this an under
taking entirely separate from the
ordinary line of our charities and
sympathies, and handle it with mass
efficiency, and with the proper pub
licity to prevent the difficulties that
will be inevitable if the Smiths and
the Bakers and the Johnsons all are
permitted to stretch out welcoming
hands to small Londoners who, with
in three weeks will have every
member of the household in a state
of complete bewilderment and dis
comfort.
These little war-scared folk are
a sacred responsibility; we want
them always to remember their
American visit as a time of happi
ness and affection; we want them to
go back as so many separate am
bassadors of friendship between on#
great country and anoth®**.
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earth?
2. During which war was the
U. S. secret service established?
3. What is a misanthrope?
4. How long does something that
Is ephemeral last?
5. Which is nearest the center
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North pole?
6. The President of the United
States may make treaties with
other nations provided how many
senators concur?
7. “Don’t tread on me” was a
slogan inscribed on what?
8. On what date did the present
century begin?
9. What would you be unable to
do if you lacked lachrymal glands?
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“Can you change this dollar bill,
for me, please?’’
“Why do you want it changed?”
“Cause Mother thinks it’s a bad
one.”
After That?
Patron (posing for photo)—What will
these pictures cost me?
Photographer — They’re t3O a dozen.
Now look pleasant!
Her Idea
“What is more beautiful than
having the three little words, 'I
love you!’ whispered in your ear?”
“Having them in writing,
dearie.” ft
Men are all alike in one respect.
Every one you meet is different.
He’d Been Watching
Going into the clothier’s shop,
the bright young man asked:
“I say, how much is the second
hand suit in the window?”
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“You’re telling me! Why, the
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10. Is Spanish the official lan
guage of Brazil?
The Answers
1. Antipodes.
2. Civil war (July 2, 1864).
3. A hater of mankind.
4. One day.
5. The North pole. (The earth
is slightly flattened at the pole.)
6. One half of senators present
when treaty is considered.
7. Early American naval flags.
8. January 1, 1901.
9. Shed tears.
10. No. Portuguese is the of
ficial language. Brazil, the larg
est state in South America, began
as a colony of Portugal. It is the
only nation in the Western hemi
sphere in which Portuguese is the
prevailing language.
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Elmer Then why do they
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